Example sentences of "[vb base] at [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your client is in a trade , say baking , then you must deal with his trade journals , Clients are sensitive enough about what is said about them in the consumer press but when negatives appear in their own trade journal , the sparks fly at your next client meeting . |
| 2 | Now , gentle reader , I expect at my third reference to you as ‘ gentle reader ’ you 're starting to feel rather less than gentle towards me . |
| 3 | But , once again , Scotland had done their homework , though it has to be said that Monsieur Dume was a little different from the referee of Cardiff , presumably because referees also watch videos and wince at their own sins , not least of omission . |
| 4 | In 1875 Mann Crossman and Paulin opened its own purpose-built pale ale brewery in Burton-on-Trent , costing £77,000 , to beat brewers such as Bass and Allsopp at their own brew . |
| 5 | There are a couple of changes made necessary because our fauna have to be tagged to a carrier and use a static line for opening the pack , unlike ‘ hume ’ paras who can cast themselves off and tug at their own ripcords . |
| 6 | Nice old lady , no matter how often you tug at your woolly skirt hem to persuade it to cover your knees , I can still see your new shining cream bloomers ! |
| 7 | Put at its lowest , a single-minded and unrelenting pursuit of a policy , however right , however important , may be counter-productive in that it may alienate the very people whom it is sought to convert . |
| 8 | Put at its baldest , Jackie was a young man on the make . |
| 9 | Put at its simplest , they were voting for the countryside . |
| 10 | Put at its simplest , it was jealous suspicion , for when she had looked through Barbs 's windows she had seen Memet 's straw hat sitting on the sill : he always put his hat on the window-sill . |
| 11 | When you write an essay what you typically do ( put at its simplest ) is gather material and then arrange it . |
| 12 | The problem is that the majority of vets are men and cats often take a very long time to forget the helpful attentions they receive at their local animal clinics . |
| 13 | I stop at my usual vantage point and even before I have switched off the engine I see the otter . |
| 14 | Most parents look at their young child and wonder what he 'll be like when he grows up . |
| 15 | The multi-national corporations , the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are prolonging the process still today , and individuals have to , I believe , look at their own patterns of consumption and look at the way society in general works and work towards reducing levels of consumption in the rich countries so that we are more able to help the poor countries help themselves . |
| 16 | They all said they wanted to visit my country and I nodded my head , promising it would n't cost them a penny , thinking how the people in the village would crowd around them , look at their coloured hair , some of it short and some long . |
| 17 | Er so if you look at their smoking erm people can fill in a kind of smoking chart in which you look at that . |
| 18 | How far are students encouraged to ‘ stand back ’ from the discipline , and look at its philosophical implications ? |
| 19 | When the Left want to take control of a particular constituency , they look at its controlling group and note that over a six-month period the maximum number of people attending the decision-making meetings is never more than ( say ) twenty-seven . |
| 20 | Look at her blue plates there . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , what I was going to say is , look at her good points . ’ |
| 22 | If she did not tread on any of the black , perhaps when she got to the end of the floor she would shiver and rouse in her own long-lost bed , in her striped sheets , and say good morning to the apple tree and look at her own face in the mirror she had not broken . |
| 23 | look at your nice posh shirt it 's all dirty now , what ? |
| 24 | Just look at your superb performance to date . |
| 25 | Please talk to your colleagues and look at your sentencing policy . |
| 26 | Remember that the amount of care and time that you take in pressing your material will be very apparent when you look at your finished work , so never be tempted to cut corners . |
| 27 | look at your new jumper now . |
| 28 | If you look at your first blank page and freeze , how do you unfreeze yourself and get started ? |
| 29 | And wh when you when you look at your actual erm schooldays , etcetera schooldays |
| 30 | ‘ It 's hard to forgive , when I look at your sad eyes , and feel your thin hands . |